Seminole freshman pitcher Andrew Mills will miss the rest of the season due to an accidental shooting at a friend’s house on Sunday. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, Mills, 14, was at the home of Matthew Emerick, 16, on Sunday afternoon when Emerick showed Mills a .22-caliber rifle. ...Read more

East Lake coach Dan Genna will get no sympathy from rival coaches, but so far this season he is having trouble getting his deep pitching staff enough innings. With four legitimate starters, the Eagles have the best luxury in baseball: too much pitching. Senior right-hander Brad Deppermann has moved from ...Read more

A pair of Seminole baseball players have decided to stay home and play for St. Petersburg College. First baseman Corey Baptist and catcher Michael Mann will play for the Titans, who are a two-year school athletically, instead of playing at Division I schools. Baptist, the Times' Player of the Year, ...Read more

Player of the Year: Christian Arroyo, Sr., Hernando If MLB draft gurus were surprised Hernando shortstop Christian Arroyo flew off the board in the first round, few in Brooksville were. • “The kid’s definitely got it all going on,” Leopards teammate and USF signee Brandon Lawson said. Arroyo was the ...Read more

Seminole pitcher/outfielder Tylor Craft committed to St. Petersburg College, according to coach Jeff Pincus. Craft was a two-year starter in the outfield for Seminole and hit .250 with seven RBIs and had nine stolen bases this spring. But Craft really emerged as a pitcher. After starting the season as a ...Read more

Player of the year: Corey Baptist, Sr., Seminole Why we picked him: Seminole was loaded with hitters and usually got every opponent’s ace, but Baptist still stood out. He hit third most of the season and finished with a .455 batting average, 28 RBIs, five doubles, six home runs, .533 ...Read more

TAMPA — Headlining Tyler Danish’s resume are numbers that rank him among the nation’s top five high school pitchers: 94 innings on the mound, 156 strikeouts, and an ERA of 0.00. And that’s still not good enough for a number of major-league clubs. “I’ve done everything I could to possibly ...Read more

Over the past few days, Tucker Neuhaus has performed for scouts in big-league ballparks like Target Field in Minneapolis, Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City and, of course, Tropicana Field. None of the venues have made Neuhaus, the son of a longtime college baseball coach, particularly awed or nervous. He suspects ...Read more

photo gallery ST. PETERSBURG — It took extra innings last year to determine a winner at the Tampa Bay High School All-Star Classic at Tropicana Field. It took just one inning to determine this year’s winner. Pinellas erupted for six runs in the second inning Wednesday off Bloomingdale’s Cody Crouse, ...Read more

Pinellas County public school baseball coaches recently voted on the PCAC north and south county teams. Here are the first and second teams and honorable mentions: North County First team Pitchers: Nick Nolan (Seminole), Brad Deppermann (East Lake), Jake Mielock (Countryside) Catcher: Grant Hodges (East Lake) Infielders: Corey Baptist (Seminole), ...Read more

Seminole first baseman Corey Baptist was named the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Class 7A-10 Player of the Year. Baptist, who transferred from St. Petersburg Catholic for his senior year, hit .455 with four home runs and stole 19 bases. Baptist is committed to Mississippi and will play in the Pinellas vs. ...Read more

LUTZ — Logan LaPace could hardly settle himself long enough to sleep, he was so ready to take the mound Thursday. But when steady rain left Steinbrenner’s baseball field a virtual mud puddle, LaPace was forced to wait another couple of days to take the mound. “I was really disappointed ...Read more

EAST LAKE — East Lake’s Troy Strominger had seen curveballs and off-speed pitches all night, and hadn’t fared too well against them, going 0-for-3 with three strikeouts. But the last one he saw? He liked that one just fine. Strominger solidly drove a full-count curveball into left field to score ...Read more

PINELLAS PARK — It was prom night at Countryside on Friday, but its baseball team couldn’t go to the biggest party of the school year. It was busy playing Seminole in the Class 7A, District 10 final, and judging by the party on the Pinellas Park pitcher’s mound, the Cougars ...Read more